Taliban use ‘bacha bazi’ boys to kill Afghan police

The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the pervasive practice of “bacha bazi” — paedophilic boy play — to infiltrate security ranks, multiple officials and survivors of such assaults told AFP.

The ancient custom is prevalent across Afghanistan, but nowhere does it seem as entrenched as in the province of Uruzgan, where “bacha bereesh” — or boys without beards — widely become objects of lustful attraction for powerful police commanders.

The Taliban over nearly two years have used them to mount a wave of Trojan Horse attacks — at least six between January and April alone — that have killed hundreds of policemen, according to security and judicial officials in the province.

“The Taliban are sending boys — beautiful boys, handsome boys — to penetrate checkpoints and kill, drug and poison policemen,” said Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewanai, who was Uruzgan’s police chief until he was removed in a security reshuffle in April amid worsening violence.

“They have figured out the biggest weakness of police forces — bacha bazi,” he told AFP.

The assaults, signifying abuse of children by both parties in the conflict, have left authorities rattled, with one senior provincial official who echoed Rogh Lewanai’s view saying “it’s easier tackling suicide bombers than bacha attackers”.

The killings illustrate how bacha bazi is aggravating insecurity in Uruzgan, a remote province which officials warn is teetering on the brink of collapse, unravelling hard-won gains by US, Australian and Dutch troops who fought there for years.

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Joni S

And we wonder what cause such hatred in their hearts. It starts with their own people planting the seeds of hatred from a young age of being used as a sex toy. No wonder they grow up to take their anger out on the world. The world, as far as they know, is a horrible place.

TexJ3

Almost like death by hypocrisy. I feel horrible for those boys.
T3

Susan H

Absolutely disgusting. Surely the western troops having to witness this depravity and it's effects on the children must suffer terribly from moral injury, especially when they can't do anything to help these boys. Just look at what happened to that brave Green Beret who "assisted" one particular scumbag to the ground a couple of times - Obama's administration went after him with a vengeance. That lot aren't fit to lick that fine Sergeant's boots.

Irene B

These Afghan men are sick and perveted. In the book Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell, he writes about while out on a patrol they came across a little boy who had is eyes gouged out and missing all his teeth. The Taliban had used him as a sex toy.
They need to be rounded up and shot, there is no help for these men.

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